Implementation of the Chicago Manual of Style, 18th edition

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  • ejlehner
    Hello, I have been having an issue with the "Notes and Annotated Bibliography" style of Chicago 18th. I have been putting text into the "Extra" field, however, when I create the bibliography, none of this text is included as the annotated portion of an annotated bibliography. Any thoughts or recommendations? Thanks!
  • dunning
    @ejlehner The annotations are in the wrong position; I have submitted corrected styles, which should be available before too long:

    https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/pull/7811
  • LWittern
    I am sorry to be such a dolt, but I can't get the 18th (notes and annotated bibliography) to include my annotations, either from the extra field or from the abstract. What am I doing wrong? I get the bibliography item, but without the annotations.
  • dunning
    @LWittern The annotated styles are currently broken; the fix is waiting for @bwiernik to review.
  • emilianoeheyns
    edited 26 days ago
    According to a report I got over on github, this CSL entry

    [
    {"id":"liang2018","accessed":{"date-parts":[["2025",10,1]]},"author":[{"family":"Liang","given":"Kathleen"}],"citation-key":"liang2018","container-title":"Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues","DOI":"10.22004/ag.econ.272492","issue":"2","issued":{"date-parts":[["2018"]]},"language":"en","publisher":"Agricultural and Applied Economics Association","source":"ideas.repec.org","title":"Theme overview: the linkages between entrepreneurship and sustainable regional food networks","title-short":"Theme overview","type":"article-journal","URL":"https://ideas.repec.org//a/ags/aaeach/272492.html","volume":"33"}
    ]

    should have "between" capitalized for CMOS 18, but when I generate a bibliography, I get
    Liang, Kathleen. ‘Theme Overview: The Linkages between Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Regional Food Networks’. Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues 33, no. 2 (2018). https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.272492.
    Is style-dependent capitalization even a thing that citeproc can do?


  • adamsmith
    edited 26 days ago
    That's incorrect. Chicago title case lowercases all.
    prepositions, regardless of length, so lowercase "between" is correct

    P.s. No, CSL only has one title casing setting which follows Chicago. There are other rules out there, most notably AP headline capitalization, but they aren't typically used in academia
  • emilianoeheyns
    I forgot to mention that user specifically talked about CMOS 18. Don't know whether that matters. I've directed him here, BBT aims to follow Zotero on title casing.
  • adamsmith
    Oh, right, that changed, they now capitalize prepositions of 5 letters or more. We'll need to think about what we do with that -- I'm inclined to think we have CSL follow current Chicago style (i.e. 18th edition). It's a fairly trivial change of removing some stop words.
    Issue here: https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/issues/456
  • erdoke
    It's been the same way in previous versions, but is the period at the very end of the bibliography a must? Some environments where I paste them cannot get it that the period is not part of the full DOI link and the result is a dysfunctional link. I need to manually remove these periods to fix such issues.
  • dunning
    The period is a requirement in Chicago, but many other styles omit it, such as APA and MHRA.
  • q
    CMOS 18 includes translations, but not all of them seem to be translated completely.

    Where do I go to help fix the missing translations, and is there a list of "approved" translations?

    Example, a report with two "authors" and "contributor", English:

    Curie, Marie, and Ada Lovelace. 2025. Test with Style. Final Report. With Albert Einstein. Bodleian Library.

    French, fully translated ("et", "avec"):

    Curie, Marie, et Ada Lovelace. 2025. Test with style. Final Report. Avec Albert Einstein. Bodleian Library.

    German, partially translated ("und", but "with"):

    Curie, Marie, und Ada Lovelace. 2025. Test with style. Final Report. With Albert Einstein. Bodleian Library.

    There are also languages that are not translated at all.
  • adamsmith
    Translations are here: https://github.com/citation-style-language/locales and that's where you'd contribute (though please only in languages in which you are fluent yourself, obviously) -- note that Zotero lags a bit behind in pulling them in, so you'll see that the German ones actually are complete now, just not updated in Zotero yet.
  • q
    Fantastic, thanks! (though nothing left for me to contribute this time ;-)
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